Which特殊用法探究.doc

Which特殊用法探究
湖北老河口市高级中学 余剑 （441800）（**********）
请先看以下一道高考题：
1. He may win the competition, ________he is likely to ge而用关系代词which来作抽象名词的限定词，这样就和主句发生了关联,在这种情况下，《2020考研英语语法打破》（胡敏编著，高等教育出版社,2020，P239）认为这是一种特殊的定语从句。引导词which之前带介词，之后修饰名词，这一名词的参加完全是为了表达更明确，使意义更完好。常见的搭配包括：at which point （在这时），at which time(在这时），by which time（到这时为止），during which time （在此期间)，for which reason（由于这个原因），in which case（在这种情况下）等。但我个人认为Which除了作关系代词外，在严格意义上来讲应作关系限定词（used to refer back to the preceding or statement）用以复指前文的名词或内容，主要起修饰作用,表示“这个，这些，这样的”的意思，也就是说在in which case中which不是关系代词，而是关系限定词。如人教社新编教材高二《英语》上册(P29）课后阅读中的问题:
Make a timeline that shows which poets were living during which century. Put all the foreign poets named in the reading passage on the timeline and include the names of some famous Chinese poets that you know.（划线部分which译为“这段，这个"的意思)，：
postman comes at 6：30 in the morning， at which time I am usually fast ，但在那时我还在梦乡里。
2。The questions were all opera, about which subject I know nothing。这些问题都是关于戏剧的，我对它一无所知。
3。The speaker paused to examine his notes， at which point a loud crash was ，这时听到一声巨响.
4. She may have missed the train， in which case she won’t arrive for another hour。 她有可能没有赶上火车,那样再过一个小时她也到不了。
5. In 1960 he came to London， in which city he has lived ever since。1960年，他来到伦敦,自此在该城一直住到如今。
6。 The picking of th